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Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – right, law, demands defending and enforcing, and it demands it from a posture of high importance. Defending it feels heroic and we are drawn to heroism. We bow our knee to its demand and grieve our God. Nothing trumps love, no law, no right, no matter how high you hold them, they never trump the law of love. We have allowed this grieving to happen to often, we must bend our knee to love for love loves above all else, and we serve love Himself. Be hero’s of love.

Mark 3:2-5 TPT
[2] Everyone was watching Jesus closely to see if he would heal the man on the Sabbath, giving them a reason to accuse him of breaking Sabbath rules. [3] Jesus said to the man with the paralyzed hand, “Stand here in the middle of the room.” [4] Then he turned to all those gathered there and said, “Which is it? Is it against the law to do evil on the Sabbath or to do good? To destroy a life or to save one?” But no one answered him a word. [5] Then looking around at everyone, Jesus was moved with indignation and grieved by the hardness of their hearts and said to the man, “Now stretch out your hand!” As he stretched out his hand, it was instantly healed!

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the foolishness and the high cost of defending my version of right when I have incomplete knowledge. It’s foolishness to make the claim and it is a travesty when I am aware of the cost.

1 Corinthians 13:9,12 TPT
[9] Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial, [12] For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the creator God is intimate and present to me.

Matthew 14:14 TPT
[14] So when Jesus landed he had a huge crowd waiting for him. Seeing so many people, his heart was deeply moved with compassion toward them, so he healed all the sick who were in the crowd.

This is the revelation that is shaping my life today – servanthood is the posture for sharing the God of love. Servanthood is me allowing myself to be reshaped into the life of the one I am serving. It’s not fixing, it’s walking alongside in their shoes. Love serves, and serving love reflects and reveals the God of love. People experience his love before they ask His name.

1 Corinthians 9:19-20 TPT
[19] Now, even though I am free from obligations to others, I joyfully make myself a servant to all in order to win as many converts as possible. [20] I became Jewish to the Jewish people in order to win them to the Messiah. I became like one under the law to gain the people who were stuck under the law, even though I myself am not under the law.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – what do we do with the guilty, stone or restore? Is punishment restorative? What is God like with the guilty?

John 8:4-5,7 TPT
[4] Then they said to Jesus, “Teacher, we caught this woman in the very act of adultery. [5] Doesn’t Moses’ law command us to stone to death a woman like this? Tell us, what do you say we should do with her?” [7] Angry, they kept insisting that he answer their question, so Jesus stood up and looked at them and said, “Let’s have the man who has never had a sinful desire throw the first stone at her.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – what do I do with Gods kindness towards me? Do I know it? Do I use it and abuse it? Or does it lead me into full life?

Romans 2:4  TPT
[4] Do the riches of his extraordinary kindness make you take him for granted and despise him? Haven’t you experienced how kind and understanding he has been to you? Don’t mistake his tolerance for acceptance. Do you realize that all the wealth of his extravagant kindness is meant to melt your heart and lead you into repentance?

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – what do we do with the guilty, stone or restore? Is punishment restorative? What is God like with the guilty?

John 8:4-5,7 TPT
[4] Then they said to Jesus, “Teacher, we caught this woman in the very act of adultery. [5] Doesn’t Moses’ law command us to stone to death a woman like this? Tell us, what do you say we should do with her?” [7] Angry, they kept insisting that he answer their question, so Jesus stood up and looked at them and said, “Let’s have the man who has never had a sinful desire throw the first stone at her.”

Here is the revelation that is showing my life today – we make so much of life about what we can achieve on our own, and God wants us to do nothing on our own. Love always wants to be involved and enable me to do what I can’t do on my own.

John 6:65 NIV
[65] He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – love of God means living in obedience to loving each other. Love for God does not mean defending my interpreted rightness of him. He is clear about constantly loving each other, and leaves a lot else to the beauty of the journey, that we are to travel in love together. There is no end to constantly.

2 John 1:5-6 TPT

[5] Dearest woman, I have a request to make of you. It is not a new commandment but a repetition of the one we have had from the beginning: that we constantly love one another. [6] This love means living in obedience to whatever God commands us. For to walk in love toward one another is the unifying commandment we’ve heard from the beginning.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – nothing that is kept in the dark can be healed by the light. But I will only bring into the light what I think the light can handle.

John 2:23-25 TPT
[23] While Jesus was at the Passover Feast, the number of his followers began to grow, and many gave their allegiance to him because of all the miraculous signs they had seen him doing! [24] But Jesus did not yet entrust himself to them, because he knew how fickle human hearts can be. [25] He didn’t need anyone to tell him about human nature, for he fully understood what man was capable of doing.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – love makes me me, sets me free to be me, and then sends me to be me. It’s light and freeing.

1 John 5:3-4 TPT
[3] True love for God means obeying his commands, and his commands don’t weigh us down as heavy burdens. [4] You see, every child of God overcomes the world, for our faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the world.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – love is not learned it’s lived.

1 John 4:17 TPT
[17] By living in God, love has been brought to its full expression in us so that we may fearlessly face the day of judgment, because all that Jesus now is, so are we in this world.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – love is the only command of God. So he submits himself to me and invites me to be loved. Walk in or walk away, God never changes his posture of submission.

1 John 2:3-6,12 TPT
[3] Here’s how we can be sure that we’ve truly come to know God: if we keep his commands. [4] If someone claims, “I have come to know God by experience,” yet doesn’t keep God’s commands, he is a phony and the truth finds no place in him. [5] But the love of God will be perfected within the one who obeys God’s Word. We can be sure that we’ve truly come to live in intimacy with God, [6] not just by saying, “I am intimate with God,” but by walking in the footsteps of Jesus. [12] I remind you, dear children: your sins have been permanently removed because of the power of his name.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – know the intensity of being loved by God in order to echo that love to others, and make this your “above all” of your life.

1 Peter 4:8 TPT
[8] Above all, constantly echo God’s intense love for one another, for love will be a canopy over a multitude of sins.